PASSWORD RECOVERY

ElcomSoft Distributed Password Recovery

High-Performance Distributed Password Recovery

Break complex passwords, recover strong encryption keys and unlock documents in a production environment. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is a high-end solution for forensic and government agencies, data recovery and password recovery services and corporate users with multiple networked workstations connected over a LAN or the Internet. Featuring unique acceleration technologies and providing linear scalability with no overhead, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery offers the fastest password recovery by a huge margin, and is the most technologically advanced password recovery product currently available.

Features and Benefits

Hardware acceleration (patented) reduces password recovery time by a factor of 50

Hardware Acceleration

ElcomSoft has pioneered many software innovations that have made it easier to recover lost passwords from the operating system, Microsoft Office products, Adobe PDF files, Intuit Quicken, OpenOffice and a variety of other applications. The latest development revolutionizes the speed of password recovery without requiring expensive hardware.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery employs a revolutionary, patented technology to accelerate password recovery when a compatible NVIDIA or AMD graphics card is present in addition to the CPU-only mode. Currently supporting all GeForce from 400 to 900-series GPUs (as well as NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla) and AMD Radeon HD from 5000-series to R7/R9 GPUs, the acceleration technology offloads parts of computational-heavy processing onto the fast and highly scalable processors featured in the latest graphic accelerators.

The acceleration technology developed by ElcomSoft allows the execution of mathematically intensive password recovery code on the massively parallel computational elements found in modern graphic accelerators. The GPU acceleration is unique to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, making password recovery up to fifty times faster compared to password recovery methods that only use the computer’s main CPU. In addition, Distributed Password Recovery also supports Tableau TACC1441 hardware accelerators.

How GPU Acceleration Works

Using brute force attack to recover passwords, it is possible, though time-consuming, to recover passwords from popular applications with the power of the computer’s main CPU. For example, an eight-character Windows Vista logon password is as strong as about 55 trillion possible passwords. Windows Vista uses NTLM hashing by default, so using a modern dual-core PC you could try up to 10 million passwords per second, and perform a complete analysis in about two months. With ElcomSoft’s new GPU acceleration technology, the process would take only three to five days, depending upon the CPU and GPU.

Until recently, graphic cards’ processing units could not be used for applications such as password recovery. Older graphics chips could only perform floating-point calculations of varying precision, while most cryptographic algorithms require precise fixed-point mathematics.

The recently introduced chips can process fixed-point calculations. With as much as 4 GB of onboard video memory and several hundred processing units, these powerful GPU chips are much more effective than CPUs in performing many of these calculations.

By utilizing the new processing power offered by today’s GPUs (currently, all GeForce from 400- to 900-series GPUs, NVIDIA Quadro, NVIDIA Tesla and AMD Radeon from 5000 to R9 series GPUs are supported) ElcomSoft offers the recovery speed increase by a factor of twenty, simply by hooking up with a $150 video card’s onboard GPU. High-end PC motherboards can work with as many as four video cards, allowing for even faster password recovery applications for extremely modest increase in hardware costs.

Networking

Linear Scalability

Unlike competition, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is not ‘virtually’ or ‘practically’ linear in scalability. By doubling the number of PCs working on a password, you cut time required to recover a password by half.

By only transferring the bare minimum of information over the network, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows for massively parallel operation, and scales linearly to as many as 10,000 workstations with no scalability overhead.

Distributed Recovery over LAN and Internet

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery enables distributed work over the LAN, Internet, or both. Minimum bandwidth requirements ensure no scalability overhead even for the slowest connections.

Ordering information

You can order fully registered version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery by credit card (online or by fax), with check/money order, by bank/write transfer or with purchase order. The cost of the license depends on the number of computers (clients) the server can work with.

We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB. When you pay by credit card, your order will be processed immediately. Postal mail shipments are initiated immediately. Products available electronically are generally ready for download immediately, or no more than 48 hours after you place your order.

Using the online order form, you can also order the software with Solo/Switch/Maestro (only if issued in UK), by Bank/Wire Transfer, Online wire transfer (applicable only for orders placed within Germany in Euro), by Check (we accept all personal, business, and Cashier’s checks) or Cash.

Online orders are processed automatically and therefore more quickly than orders placed by fax, e-mail, or phone, because processing is not dependent on our customer service center’s business hours. But alternatively, you can order through customer service or with Purchase Order.